KARACHI: A young shopkeeper was gunned down in what police suspected a targeted attack in Gulshan-i-Maymar on Sunday morning, police said.

They police said that 35-year-old Tahir Ayub was killed at Chawla warehouse in Janjal Goth off Superhighway.

Area SHO Amin Qureshi said that the victim lived in Saadi Town. As per his routine, he arrived after Fajr prayer to open his shop when four assailants riding two motorbikes emerged there, fired at him and rode away.

The victim suffered two bullet wounds in the leg and hand and died of excessive bleeding.

The SHO said the police were investigating the case from two possible angles — targeted killing and robbery-cum-murder.

Published in Dawn, December 26th, 2022